Gender Mainstreaming Trainer - International Consultant - Home based

Background:

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. 

The UN Women Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) exercises UN Women functions at a regional level and in support of UN Women’s engagement in 17 countries across the region. Drawing on UN Women’s triple mandate, ROAS promotes the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women. The ROAS Strategic Note 2022-2025 includes a comprehensive and innovative monitoring and reporting framework to measure and report on transformational results at the regional level, including in those countries where UN Women is a regionally based entity. ROAS engages with regional and global inter-governmental processes to ensure gender equality is an integral part of norms and standards and promotes women’s full participation and leadership in policy processes and gender-responsive governance systems, including gender statistics. ROAS aims to advance supportive regulatory frameworks for promoting decent work and enterprise development, including for women migrant workers; and promotes private sector engagement and the Women’s Empowerment Principles. Focusing on prevention and response, ROAS works to eliminate violence against women. ROAS’s programming takes a gender-responsive approach to the prevention of violent extremism and supports integration of gender considerations into humanitarian action and to advance the women, peace and security agenda. 

UN Women leads the UN System-Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan by coordinating strategy development, strengthening accountability through UN‑SWAP upgrades, supporting UN country teams, mobilizing resources, and countering backlash on women’s rights. It drives system-wide coherence, gender-responsive leadership, financing, normative advocacy, and partnership across the UN to accelerate SDG 5. Strengthening capacity of the UN system to mainstream gender equality and women’s empowerment in UN operations at country and regional level is critical to this effort. 

The consultant will report to the Regional Coordination Specialist to implement the following deliverables:

• Online gender mainstreaming training: 

The consultant will prepare the agenda, materials, presentations etc., informed by the UN Women Guidance, and in consultation with the Regional Coordination Specialist regarding illustrative case studies, and links to the UNCT-SWAP GES, GEM, UN GEAP. The training will be delivered via two workstreams for 18 participants each. Participants will be a mix of UN Women and other agencies’ personnel. Each workstream will include nine hours of contact time: 3 hours each for three days. 

• Online reflection session:

The consultant will facilitate one online session (approximately one hour in duration) for training participants to reflect on what they have learnt in the training and how they will implement their new skills, as well as other key points arising.

• Summary report:

The consultant will provide a brief report recording the participants, agenda, key discussion points and reflections for participants. The consultant will also include the materials of the training as an annex to the report. 

Deliverables:

Deliverables Expected completion time (due day)  Online gender mainstreaming training By 18 September 2025 Online reflection session By end October 2025 (exact date TBC) Summary report By 6 November 2025

 

Competencies:

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework: 

Functional Competencies:

• Capacity to engage and influence stakeholders from diverse UN entities;
• Capacity to apply participatory pedagogies and methodologies;
• Capac